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The expression of information entropy closely approximates the expression of sensitiveness of human experience for quantity. This is a major factor for information entropy to play an important role in chemical engineering. 

The effect of the solid body surface propagates a considerable distance from it that is, the influence of the surface on the chains that are in direct contact with it propagates via other chains into the bulk of the material. The range of action of the surface forces is a consequence of changes in the intermolecular interactions between chains that are directly adjacent to those in contact with the siuface. Two factors limit the molecular mobility of chains close to the boundary adsorption reactions of macromolecules with the surface and decrease of their entropy. Close to the boundary, the macromolecule cannot adopt the same number of conformations as in bulk, so that the surface limits the geometry of the molecule. As a result, the number of states available to the molecule in the smface layer decreases. These hmita-tions on conformation are the primary reason for the decrease of molecular mobility close to the boundary [32]. 

Figure 3-13 Growth rate of material lines as measured by the Lyapunov exponent (A) (dashed lines) and topological entropy (0) (solid lines). The three pictures represent three different flow conditions in the sine flow a) T = 0.8 b) T = 1.2 (c) T = 1.6. In each case, the topological entropy closely predicts the length increase of the interface between mixture components (dots). The Lyapunov exponent underpredicts the mixing rate before the asymptotic time limit is reached.

For polymer networks, the conformational entropy closely depends on the cross-linking density according to the thermodynamic theory, the dimensionality of the polymer system should affect the value of Tg which is indeed observed on highly cross-linked systems, confirming the predictions of this theory. 

As we have seen, the third law of thermodynamics is closely tied to a statistical view of entropy. It is hard to discuss its implications from the exclusively macroscopic view of classical themiodynamics, but the problems become almost trivial when the molecular view of statistical themiodynamics is introduced. Guggenlieim (1949) has noted that the usefiihiess of a molecular view is not unique to the situation of substances at low temperatures, that there are other limiting situations where molecular ideas are helpfid in interpreting general experimental results ... 

In Fig. 5.21, from Dawson s paper, the uptake at X for the 250°C-outgassed sample is dose to the calculated value for a monolayer of water with a (H20) = 101 A. Point X has therefore been ascribed to a close-packed monolayer of water on a hydroxylated surface of rutile. The fact that the differential entropy of adsorption relative to the liquid state (calculated from the isosteric heat of adsorption) changes sharply from negative to positive values in this region with A s 0 at X was regarded as supporting evidence. ... 

The second law reqmres that the entropy of an isolated system either increase or, in the limit, where the system has reached an equilibrium state, remain constant. For a closed (but not isolated) system it requires that any entropy decrease in either the system or its surroundings be more than compensated by an entropy increase in the other part or that in the Emit, where the process is reversible, the total entropy of the system plus its surroundings be constant. 

The Joule-Brayton (JB) constant pressure closed cycle is the basis of the cyclic gas turbine power plant, with steady flow of air (or gas) through a compressor, heater, turbine, cooler within a closed circuit (Fig. 1.4). The turbine drives the compressor and a generator delivering the electrical power, heat is supplied at a constant pressure and is also rejected at constant pressure. The temperature-entropy diagram for this cycle is also... 

The ease of dissociation of the X2 molecules follows closely the values of the enthalpy of dissociation since the entropy change for the reaction is almost independent of X. Thus F2 at 1 atm pressure is 1% dissociated into atoms at 765°C but a temperature of 975°C is required to achieve the same degree of dissociation for CI2 thereafter, the required temperature drops to 775°C for Br2 and 575°C for I2 (see also next section for atomic halogens). 

Approximate formulae for the point defect concentrations close (but not too close) to the stoichimetric composition in AB alloys have been derived. They show that the prefactors in the Arrhenius formulae are sensitive functions of the stoichiometry, besides representing the usual formation entropy term. 

As defined above, the Lyapunov exponents effectively determine the degree of chaos that exists in a dynamical system by measuring the rate of the exponential divergence of initially closely neighboring trajectories. An alternative, and, from the point of view of CA theory, perhaps more fundamental interpretation of their numeric content, is an information-theoretic one. It is, in fact, not hard to see that Lyapunov exponents are very closely related to the rate of information loss in a dynamical system (this point will be made more precise during our discussion of entropy in the next section). 

Both for reaction in and IV the order with respect to catalyst is 0.5. The activation enthalpies are 96.6 3.4 and 97.6 3.4 kJ mol-1 respectively when Ti(OBu)4 is used as the catalyst. This is not too far from the activation enthalpies200 for the Sn(II)-cata-lyzed esterification of B with isophthalic acid (85.1 4.9) and with 2-hydroxyethyl hydrogen isophthalate (85.8 4.2). It is also close to the Ti(OBu)4-catalyzed esterification of benzoic acid with B (85.8 2.5)49. This is probably due to the formation of analogous intermediate complexes and similar catalytic mechanisms. On the other hand, the activation entropies of reactions III and IV are less negative than those of the reaction of benzoic or isophthalic acid with B. This probably corresponds to a stronger desolvation when the intermediary complex is formed and could be due to the presence of the sodium sulfonate group. 

Habid and Malek49 who studied the activity of metal derivatives in the catalyzed esterification of aromatic carboxylic acids with aliphatic glycols found a reaction order of 0.5 relative to the catalyst for Ti(OBu)4, tin(II) oxalate and lead(II) oxide. As we have already mentioned in connection with other examples, it appears that the activation enthalpies of the esterifications carried out in the presence of Ti, Sn and Pb derivatives are very close to those reported by Hartman et al.207,208 for the acid-catalyzed esterification of benzoic and substituted benzoic acids with cyclohexanol. These enthalpies also approach those reported by Matsuzaki and Mitani268 for the esterification of benzoic acids with 1,2-ethanediol in the absence of a catalyst. On the other hand, when activation entropies are considered, a difference exists between the esterification of benzoic acid with 1,2-ethanediol catalyzed by Ti, Sn and Pb derivatives and the non-catalyzed reaction268. Thus, activation enthalpies are nearly the same for metal ion-catalyzed and non-catalyzed reactions whereas the activation entropy of the metal ion-catalyzed reaction is much lower than that of the non-catalyzed reaction. 

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